Re: Apple Drive III cable

[gbohling@herbie.unl.edu (Tiresias)]

Jon O'Brien (jobrien@ais.net) wrote:
>I recently got an Apple Disk /// for my Apple ///+ (my how my museum is 
>growing these days).  The problem is that the drive has a pin-type 
>adapter and my ///+ has a DB25 disk drive jack.  Does anybody know the 
>pinout for building an adapter cable or know where I might find one 
>already assembled?

I recently got an apple ///+ for my disk ///... well, I have a /// also
that the disk /// was on.. anyway, when inspecting the internal drive
on the ///+, I noticed that the Db25 <or 23, or however many pins there
are> jack is wired to a ribbon cable inside, which leads up to the
controller board.  On that board it plugs into a port exactly like the
external port on the ///, which the disk /// ribbon fits into.  I can
not confirm that these are identical ports though.  There is also a
second connector on the controller, so I wonder if you could plug the
disk /// into the second plug, inside the machine, and not have to
disconnect the external port.
Anyone know for sure?
-tiR

>Jon